Neil Young's new album

Neil Young's new album, Living With War, can be heard in its entirety on his web site. The NYTs has a great article documenting the amazing prodution of the album.

"On Tuesday[5-02-06] a higher-quality version will be for sale as a download from online music stores, and a CD will be in stores next week as soon as it can be manufactured and shipped. Eventually a DVD will be released with video of the recording sessions, which took place March 29 to April 6. Many of the songs on the album were first takes, recorded immediately after Mr. Young taught them to the band. On March 31 he wrote three songs: "Let's Impeach the President" before breakfast, "Looking for a Leader" after he recorded "Let's Impeach the President" and "Roger and Out" the same evening.

A Flickr group for photos of a Frank Zappa Bust in Vilnius

In Vilnius, Lithuania there is a sculpture bust of Frank Zappa. There is a Flickr group where users are sharing their photos.

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My odometer rolling over

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Replace the work 'Knitter' with 'Fucker'. Click

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I move out of Massachusetts and in comes free health care.

The NYT is reporting that Massachusetts has passed a bill to offer universal health care to its citizens. This is the first time a state has been able to offer this right to its citizens.

"Individuals who can afford private insurance will be penalized on their state income taxes if they do not buy it. Government subsidies to private insurance plans will enable more of the working poor to be able to afford insurance and will expand the number of children who are eligible for free coverage. And businesses with more than 10 workers that do not provide insurance will be assessed a fee of up to $295 per employee per year."

It also will provide insurance to %95 of the current uninsured population of the state. This is a remarkable and should act as a model for other states or perhaps the federal government to address the health care crisis in this nation.

"'It is not a typical Massachusetts-Taxachusetts, oh just crazy liberal plan,' said Stuart H. Altman, dean of the Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. 'It isn't that at all. It is a pretty moderate approach and that's what's impressive about it. It tried to borrow and blend a lot of different pieces.'"

Clutch Hitting

I have always hated the term 'clutch hitting.' I always preferred ‘situational hitting.’ If a hitter knows when (count, situation, etc.) to take something off his swing or swing for the yard or go to the opposite field, then he will be a better hitter all around. And isn’t a run scored early in a game just as important as the one that wins the game for you. A hitter can not be in a situation to win the game with out that earlier run. ESPN page 2 elaborates. Great article.

Derek Lowe on Adderall

This explain his inconsistent pitching and strange behavior on the mound.

Dad Diet Coke is alright

All these years I have told you Diet Coke causes cancer, well I may be wrong. MSNBC is reporting no link between Aspartame and cancer. So drink up. Consider this an apology.

01:02:03 04/05/06

My buddy Mike pointed out that for the first time in a thousand years something amazing will happen. Something that will not happen again for another millennia. On Wednesday at 1:02am with 3 seconds the time/date will read:

01:02:03 04/05/06

1,2,3,4,5,6.

MLB.TV compatibility

I signed up for MLB.TV in the middle of spring training and a few days before opening day MLB released their new player. So far I have had success with both a mac (OS X) and windows (2000 and XP) with the new player. For a mac I use the flip4mac plug-in to play the stream in a new Quicktime window. You can force a new window to open by fiddling with the system pref. If you have quicktime pro you can then go to full screen mode. When running windows, assuming you have Windows Media Player, you are ready to go.
It seems like it should be easier for a mac user, or MLB should offer the feed in Real format to accommodate more users.

Tesla's dream finally realized?

This is a joke, right? Wireless extension cords? The warning is pretty amazing:

"Warning: Even though these microwaves are about as harmful as the leakage from an ordinary microwave oven (not much), do not put computers, televisions, other sensitive electrical equipment, food, liquids, paper, glass, flammable substances, magnets, or living things in between the base and satellite units. Just in case."

When the world discovered wireless electricity I always thought their would be a celebration with a ticker tape parade or something. But to find this with no fan fair at all is kinda strange.